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| Author: | sugardave [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Getting started |
Since I don't have a DVD burner, I was interested in trying out Gentoo on my PS3. I also have never used Gentoo before, so it's a learning experience for sure. I THINK I'm almost there, minus a problem I had today with "emerge sytstem -e" after upgrading (and switching) to gcc 4.1.1 last night. The only thing I'm having difficulty with is how to configure kboot to boot my system. I mean, it's all in RAM once you get to kboot, so you can't just edit /etc/kboot.conf or whatever....can you? I tried to mimic the kexec commands in the instal-fc5 script, but that didn't work since I didn't have kexec installed in my Gentoo chroot (IF that's how you're supposed to do it) and I couldn't figure out (until last night) how to emerge packages that were masked. So, I guess the point in this rambling post is to find out how to manipulate kboot to boot my new kernel off the HDD. Looking forward to learning! |
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| Author: | lu_zero [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:47 pm ] |
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First something sure since it has been done many (3 to my knowledge) times already: http://whitesanjuro.googlepages.com/ Now something I'm writing but I hadn't tested myself - the kboot stuff should reside in a partition so you should be able to write it. - the kboot system will let you run any command, type sh and you'll have the standard busybox shell. - the kernel present in the sony cd is the only one known to have a correct default config (and should be ok since the later ones have almost just fixes SPU related) Now some useful items: + you may come speak to us (gentoo-ppc64 devs and maybe other fellow ps3 owners) on irc://irc.freenode.net/#gentoo-ppc64 + I'm trying to keep some notes here http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/lu_zero/ ... ationNotes I hope it helps =) |
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| Author: | sugardave [ Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Stopping Gentoo (for now) |
I'm an impatient person, so I decided to blow off Gentoo (for now) and go with the FC6 distribution. I just wanted to get a system up and running that I could tinker with a bit. After I figure out how to get the wireless card working and how to get kboot to boot my rescue CD so I can partimage backup the drive, I will look at trying to get Gentoo running. I think I was pretty close...probably just needed to play with the kboot/kexec stuff some more. Thanks for your suggestions! |
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| Author: | lu_zero [ Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:04 am ] |
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if you could post some useful stuff like cat /proc/cpuinfo cat /proc/meminfo lspci I think many would be interested |
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| Author: | sugardave [ Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:45 am ] |
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Quote: if you could post some useful stuff like
Sure! Sorry for the delayed response...I guess I need to turn on e-mail notifications ;)cat /proc/cpuinfo cat /proc/meminfo lspci I think many would be interested These are from Fedora Core 6...I may try Gentoo again since I found a fuller step-by-step last night...I was so close winging it, but just missed a couple ;) cpuinfo: processor : 0 cpu : Cell Broadband Engine, altivec supported clock : 3192.000000MHz revision : 5.1 (pvr 0070 0501) processor : 1 cpu : Cell Broadband Engine, altivec supported clock : 3192.000000MHz revision : 5.1 (pvr 0070 0501) timebase : 79800000 machine : PS3PF meminfo: MemTotal: 202148 kB MemFree: 129644 kB Buffers: 4204 kB Cached: 41560 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 27280 kB Inactive: 28660 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 202148 kB LowFree: 129644 kB SwapTotal: 524280 kB SwapFree: 524280 kB Dirty: 20 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 17004 kB Slab: 13032 kB CommitLimit: 625352 kB Committed_AS: 18272 kB PageTables: 632 kB VmallocTotal: 8589934592 kB VmallocUsed: 1884 kB VmallocChunk: 8589929860 kB lspci: 00:01.0 USB Controller: Toshiba America Unknown device 01b6 (rev 01) 00:01.1 USB Controller: Toshiba America Unknown device 01b5 (rev 01) 00:02.0 USB Controller: Toshiba America Unknown device 01b6 (rev 01) 00:02.1 USB Controller: Toshiba America Unknown device 01b5 (rev 01) |
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| Author: | lu_zero [ Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:23 pm ] |
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just in case http://www.daniel.jp/joomla/info/ps3/in ... e-ps3.html I love my users =) |
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